FOCUS ON THE RIGHT THING

Luke 1:31 NLT You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High…

When Luke tells us about Jesus coming and His birth, he does it like the doctor he was, with precise detail, with the when and where, so we can see all the miraculous events took place in our real world. It actually happened. God had been born as a human being! 

He came, and He still comes to where we live, to our town, our street, our home. He reminds us He is God with us wherever we are. God is right there where you are, right now!

But this baby was going to grow into the man who walked the dusty streets, who would change the world, bringing us all hope. Our focus isn’t to be on Mary or the miraculous birth, amazing though it was. No, God wants our focus to only be on Jesus, His precious Son.

Can you imagine sitting round the camp fire with the other shepherds that night when the sky was split apart and filled with the host of heaven’s angels praising God? As far as I know, the angels had never done it before, and have never done it since! God really wanted us to know how important Jesus was and is. 

God’s own Son had left heaven and had now arrived to bring salvation to all mankind. He was bringing the Kingdom of God to earth! God’s plan was being revealed, unfolded before their very eyes.😊

May we not forget the significance, in all the run up to Christmas, that God actually came down to us, became like one of us, to identify with our daily ups and downs, our joys and sorrows, in order to raise us up to Himself, to be like Jesus. What a thought that is! 😊

Lord open our eyes afresh and help us, to not only grasp, but not lose sight of how great Your gift of Jesus is to each one of us. Amen.

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